Vaccination against COVID-19 in some localities fails to meet requirements: Acting Health Minister
The speed of vaccination against COVID-19 in some localities has not yet met the required progress, especially the injection of the 3rd and 4th shots for people aged over 18 and for children from five to under 12 years old, Acting Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said on August 2.
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Hanoi (VNA) - The speed of vaccination against COVID-19 in somelocalities has not yet met the required progress, especially the injection of the3rd and 4th shots for people aged over 18 and for children from five to under 12years old, Acting Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan said on August 2.
Speaking at a teleconference with 63 provinces and cities,and ministries and sectors on intensifying epidemic prevention and control andvaccination against COVID-19, Lan said that the communication work to mobilise andencourage people to participate in pandemic prevention and control, especiallyvaccination, is not really effective, while resources for pandemic preventionand control have not been guaranteed, and the shortage of drugs and medicalsupplies occurs in many places.
According to the ministry, currently, the COVID-19 pandemicand other infectious diseases such as seasonal flu, dengue fever, andhand-foot-mouth disease are basically controlled nationwide. The ministry isalso keeping a close watch on developments of monkeypox and other emergingdangerous infectious diseases in the region and the world.
Nguyen Luong Tam, Deputy Director of the Preventive MedicineDepartment, said that in the first seven months of this year, Vietnam recordedover 9 million COVID-19 cases, accounting for 83.9% of the total, of whom over8.5 million recovered fully. However, since the end of March, the pandemic hasbeen well controlled across the nation.
As of July 31, the country had administered over 245.7million doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
Since the beginning of this year, over 136,000 cases ofdengue fever and 45 fatalities have been reported.
However, no cases of Monkeypox, acute hepatitis and othergroup A infectious diseases have been recorded in Vietnam nationwide.
In the last months of 2022, the Ministry of Health requireslocalities to closely monitor the diseases, especially the appearanceof new variants; intensify surveillance, early detection and timely treatmentof infections, limit the number of severe cases, and better disease preventionand control at border gates./.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has instructed People’s Committees of cities and provinces to immediately issue instructions on the prevention and control of monkeypox.
"Hanh trinh Do" (Red Journey), the country’s largest-scale blood donation campaign, has contributed to raising awareness about voluntary blood donation and handling blood shortages over the past 10 years.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) on August 1 held an online training session to guide medical facilities nationwide on the diagnosis and treatment of monkeypox in the context that the number of the cases worldwide is topping 22,000.
The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City have requested authorities of districts and Thu Duc city to speed up COVID-19 vaccination for children aged five to under 18, in preparation for the new academic year 2023.
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The patient, Tieu Viet But, born in 1970 and residing in Binh Tri commune, Binh Son district, the central province of Quang Ngai, was working aboard fishing vessel Qng – 95657TS when the incident occurred at 7:00 am.
All drugs entering hospitals must have a clear origin, so counterfeit drugs are only in the market, not in hospital, affirmed Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan.
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All eligible patients will receive surgical interventions and post-operative care in accordance with Vietnamese medical standards and global care protocols.
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The Red Journey has become the country’s largest and most effective blood donation campaign, leaving a strong impression on the national voluntary blood donation movement.
This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
People get vaccinated against COVID-19 (Photo: VNA) 
